blacken
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The herb has been used for more than 1,000 years and has traditionally been associated with "blacken hair and nourish essence."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
These incidents may temporarily blacken the eyes of the NBA and Major League Baseball but sports gambling is here to stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
But as the ghostly figure draws nearer, its skin rots and its eyes blacken.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
She’s prepared to leave immediately should the fire worsen or smoke blacken the sky.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
I imagine a raven sitting on Daniela's shoulder, and I blacken her hair to match its wings.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
When the ice blackens it's ability to reflect the sun diminishes and this accelerates the melting of the ice.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
In a clearing of Colombia's Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.
From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022
A plume of smoke rises up above the streetlamps and blackens the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019
Partridges, pheasants and quail to roast; pigeons to bring to tenderness slowly with red wine and onions, and quails to split, skewer and grill until their skin blackens and their bones crunch.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2017
Raising a cloud of dirt and debris that blackens the sky.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
I even spot a small yellow flower shooting up from the blackened ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
On Tuesday, a silver cross on a long chain hung from the pine tree’s bark, which was peeling and blackened from the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The aggressive Plaskett fire overtook the Timber fire in size, and together they have blackened more than 50,000 acres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A photo showed a family, holding each other in front of a blackened mobile home.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The mood among many Labour MPs is darkening, even blackening.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Algae lying dormant on the ice starts blooming in spring blackening large areas of the ice.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
Meanwhile, California’s largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded on Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
The midday gray blackening, then brightening, on account of a remote and veiled disk of sun and moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
Perhaps eighty years earlier, dust storms had engulfed the high plains, blackening the glaciers in the peaks above.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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